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Transport / Ferry company to appeal court ruling

AN ORKNEY ferry company is appealing a Court of Session ruling in April which rejected its claims that the Northern Isles ferry tendering process is unlawful.

Family firm Pentland Ferries, which runs the non-subsidised service between Caithness and South Ronaldsay in Orkney, said the level of subsidy in the Scottish Government’s next Northern Isles ferry contract amounted to unlawful state aid and would distort the market.

The service includes routes connecting Aberdeen, Kirkwall and Lerwick, as well Scrabster to Stromness.

Pentland Ferries, however, still has two outstanding complaints to the European Commission relating to the decision to tender the next Northern Isles ferry contract and plans to introduce road equivalent tariff on the routes.